Word: loudest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...money, more money and still more money out of the Federal Treasury for local relief. Hardly had bald, hawknosed T. Semmes Walmsley, Mayor of New Orleans, opened the first session than the keynote of the Conference was struck by Fiorello H. ("Little Flower") LaGuardia of New York City, loudest bloom in the mayoral bouquet...
...Loudest reply to Mr. Sherrill promptly came from "Jerry" Mahoney who told the Social Problems Club at Columbia University: "The Nazi invitation ... is a subterfuge without cordiality or real sportsmanship." Retaliated Mr. Sherrill: "Why doesn't Jerry see to it that Jews are admitted as members of the New York Athletic Club, of which he is a member?" Snarled Mr. Mahoney: "I have nothing to do with New York Athletic Club policies. General Sherrill is also a member. I would like to know what he thinks of it." Any chance that the uproar might degenerate into a locker-room...
...British efforts to obtain by means of concessions to Germany the co-operation of Realmleader Adolf Hitler in boycotting Italy. This discovery threw the Soviet Union overnight from high gear into low so far as the League is concerned. Soviet Foreign Commissar Litvinoff, whose voice at Geneva has been loudest against Il Duce, abruptly decided not to attend the League Assembly last week when it met to approve sanctions, sending instead Vladimir Potemkin, Soviet Ambassador to France. In Moscow leading Government newsorgans charged that Britain was attempting to "bribe" not only Germany but also Japan. Since these two countries...
Paradoxically, as the new Governor-General was about to leave England last week, profoundly peaceful Canadians were voting in a general election so hectic and confused that one of the loudest platform issues was supposed...
...down the streets they go, the loudspeakers blaring, the horns honking, the henchmen cheering, and the political boss who organizes the loudest noise brigade wins the election. For America loves a big noise, and the bigger and noisier, the better they love it. The political boss must be colorful, for America loves a showman. The political boss must be clever, for America loves a juggler. Dazzle the common man, for Honest John Public loves to be dazzled, either with gilded promises or gilded coins, and the brightest dazzler wins...